Having had to trawl through endless boring and plain ugly web design sites for my company, I thought I may as well link, review and rate them to save others the bother. The web sites are listed in no particular order, other than how I found each on the 'Net.
Just click on the company name to visit their home page.

1. NUA.
   Professional, quality site, with emphasis on big business solutions, and corporate-styled services. Has good resources for general Internet interest, such as surveys and news clippings. If you've got the money to spend, worth a look.
2. Web Media Ireland.
   Attractive, easy to navigate site which clearly sets out the stall for this company, specialising in small & medium business needs. Web site design, marketing and hosting starts at only �350 (different packages available), with many options and choices. Detailed service explainations help to give a full picture of this promising-looking company.
3. Spiders.
   Fancy looking pages, but takes an age to load. Not very clear descriptions, and no price list. They'll get a competent job done, but may seem a bit of a wildcard choice.
4. Boom Web Design.
   Rediculously overblown pricing (either �2300, or �3200!) for a reasonable, but not brilliant site. They offer far too little to appeal to a big company, and are too expensive for anyone else.
5. AEON.
   Strange, dark site, offering little by way of explainations, no price list, no service details, and loads up very slow. They might be good in an arty way if they gave a few details.
6. Quickseed.
   Graphics intensive site, but poor layout, and modern (pretentious) design is offputting. Price list is quite reasonable, while their client list has been suspiciously "offline" for quite a while now.
7. IWSD.
   Straightforward design company, looks a reasonable buy, with prices for a small business a/c starting at �600. Takes a while for the homepage to load up however.
8. Web World.
   Smart looking site, let down by some poor navigation. Usual range of services - design, hosting, consulting with reasonable, middle of the road prices.
9. Irish Logic Systems.
   Limerick-based web design company offering a basic page rate of �450. Nice layout and attractive site, with plenty of local clients in its portfolio.
10. Tarmak Web Design.
    Mullingar based design company. A nice looking site, with some good portfolio examples and reasonable prices; the services include basic design and domain registration.
11. Optimum Computers.
    As well as selling computer peripherals, this company offers web design services. The site is littered with JavaScript examples, leaving it a little too cluttered-looking. It aims to impress, but should tidy its page up a bit first.
12. Irish Web Design.
    This company offers basic design service (no marketing/hosting), with no price list, but a short portfolio. Contains fancy graphics but little substance. Simple, decent layout, but thin on facts, details.
13. Web Internet Design Ireland.
    Gaudy graphics and sparse details/explainations give an amatuer impression of this company. Lots of technical jargon, but no price lists or real information fails to convince.
14. Webfront.
    Amatuer graphics, no price lists and poor layout. This company cannot expect many clients to want a web site which (if like their own) is clumsy, ugly and thin on details. Perhaps it's still under construction.
15. Eirweb.
    A new company, based in Dublin, offering web design and hosting. The web site is nice and straight-forward, if a little dull, while the prices are reasonable.
16. National Web Design.
    This company, trading under 'PC World' (no, not that one!), offers web design, but has a complicated homepage, populated by irrelevant links and doesn't give too much information about its own 'complete Internet solutions'.
17. Aardvark Internet Publishing.
    This Cork-based firm offer web design services, and have a lengthy client list. The homepage is nicely designed and competently written. No price lists are given, but nonetheless a decent page.
18. Eclipse Internet Services.
    This firm offer web design, as well as training, and show it off in an easy-to-view, attractive page. Gives details of services and price list, which is affordable, but offers limited content.
19. Webnet.
    Clear and concise homepage gives brief description of web design and hosting services. The prices are not too bad, but the spiel about what you'll get is exagerrated, and merely padding about technical terms.
20. Innovative Marketing Group.
    This company offer web design and Internet marketing, with a usual array of technical jargon and competent design of their own page. Easy to use, but again, not very deep in detail. Good portfolio list.
21. Interact Ireland.
    Lovely looking web site, aided by profession graphics and good links. Big client list. This company aims at the high end of the design market, specialising in increasing exposure through usual marketing techniques. Definitely worth seeing if you are after top of the range design.
22. Midnet.
    Very odd looking home page. Gives client list upon arrival, but I couldn't find any details about their services or prices, and gave up after it took so long to load each page. They claim to write a web page in just 16 hours. Visit here and you'll see why it doesn't take them long!
23. Websoft.
    Very nice, professional site, with good layout and navigation. No price lists, but may have good potential for design. Also offers hosting services.
24. Aura.
    A rural web design company, offering design, training and advice. There is a brief client list, and the site is laid out nicely, though details are sparse. There's no price list for their services either. Still, good looking site.
25. Anchor.
    Crude-looking site, where they seem to think their 'scanning' services are quite sophisticated and advanced (!). Other than that, there's a brief section about web design, while the only prices given are for the aforementioned scanning, from �6.00 per photo!
26. Final Frontier Productions.
    Standard web design page, with a very strict and detailed price list; one which is a bit too detailed, and their basic packages start dear, at �550 for their standard, and even at that, there's too few descriptions of what is included.
27. IPAG.
    STOP! I was about to warn you about broken links and dodgy design as reasons not to visit, but perhaps the fact that it hasn't been updated since January 11th 1996 is a better reason.

Well, that's the lot so far. I'll be adding more if I come accross any. Please don't bother e-mail me with corrections (unless you know a link is not working), as I have little time to work on the page.

I may, in time categorise them all, and liven up this dull page, or add more biased reviews about other companies. Stay linked to find out!

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Last updated, Sept. '98.